The Spiders from … Antarctica!

Of the many and varied delightful creatures which enliven the drear, dark depths, there are perhaps more mysteries than certainties. From time to time a trawler will snag something huge, something strange, something unspeakable; briefly it surfaces on Ananova or Reuters, only to be tossed back into the void, too disturbing for true contemplation. We live on a placid isle of ignorance, amidst black seas of chaos, and it is not meant that we should voyage far . Giant sea creatures, including sea spiders the size of dinner plates and jellyfish with six-metre long tentacles, have been found by Australian scientists in the deep waters around Antarctica. Huge worms and giant crustaceans have been filmed during an expedition which trawled the floor of the Southern Ocean almost a mile below the surface. Many of the animals could not be identified and are to be sent to labs, possibly to be classed as newly discovered species… So it is with these strange creatures rece...